Some of Marrakesh's fanadiq (inns once used by travelling caravans) are named after the activities that once took place within, as is the case with this one – mizen means balance in Arabic, and this is where traders would have come to weigh goods for sale. Today it houses small artisan workshops, but amid the craft products there's still a giant set of rusting metal scales.


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1. Funduq El Amri

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This well-preserved funduq (inn once used by caravans) would have once been the staging post for medieval merchants selling sugar and tea, but today the…

2. Le Jardin Secret

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The foundations of this historic riad are more than 400 years old, and it was once owned by powerful qaid (local chief) U-Bihi. Here, though, it's not the…

3. Zawiya Sidi Abd El Aziz

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On the corner where Rue Amesfah splits, note the jewel-like door with stained glass, centuries-old carved wooden lintel and plasterwork detailing in the…

4. Musée de la Femme

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Spread over three floors, Marrakesh's Museum of Women was launched in 2018 by a passionate bunch of locals intent on championing women's important role in…

5. Souq des Teinturiers

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The dyers souq is one of Marrakesh's most colourful markets, with skeins of coloured wool draped from the rafters above stalls. However, very little…

6. Mouassine Fountain

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The medina had 80 fountains at the start of the 20th century; each neighbourhood had its own, providing water for cooking, public baths, orchards and…

7. Almoravid Koubba

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The Almohads destroyed almost everything their Almoravid predecessors built in Marrakesh but overlooked this graceful 12th-century koubba (shrine) across…

8. Musée de Mouassine

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While house-hunting in the medina, Parisian Patrick Menac'h stumbled across a historic treasure of great cultural significance. Beneath the layers of…